Michelle Knight: He said he had puppies

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Knight endured more than a decade of torture, rape, starvation and beatings

Her captor, Ariel Castro, committed suicide in his prison cell last year

Michelle Knight remembers exactly how Ariel Castro lured her into his home.

"In the car, he said that he had puppies," she said in part one of a three-part interview with CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360" that aired Monday night.

"So I was like, OK, I could take one home to my son because, unfortunately, his dog has passed away.

"So, we get in the backyard, and I really didn't think nothing of it until, you know, we got into the house fully -- that's when it dawned on me that this was a mistake to get in his car," said Knight, almost a year to the day after her rescue.

Castro tricked Knight, who was 21 when she was reported missing, into his vehicle from a Family Dollar store in Cleveland in 2002, promising to give her a ride. She endured more than a decade of torture, rape, starvation and beatings, held captive inside his Cleveland home.